The Kings Want Her

Chapter 6

James’s car entering the castle’s gate and I could see how big and glam the vampire’s castle is. I gasp looking at decoration of the lights. Every corner is lit by candles till the top of the castle. There is a fountain in the middle of the castle’s compound.

He parks the car casually in front of the door. I am confused there seems nobody else is here. My anxious heart blurts the question out of curiosity.

“Are we too early? There are no other cars here.” My eyes searching for any hint of vampires but could not find one. He chuckles looking at my frown face.

“The other vampires don’t drive princess. They rather use their speed to walk from one destination to destination. Besides, those who brings their human pet with them must have use chauffeur to get here. The human can’t possibly reach our speed though.” With that he smirks at me and walk to the other side of the car to get me.

I reach the door handle, but he opens it first like a gentleman. If he is not a vampire, I must have fallen in love with this man and his courtesy towards a woman. He takes my hand and close the door behind me.

My eyes travel to the beautiful red roses garden planted in the area. There are so many of it and it makes me want to take it one.

“The king of yours loves red roses so much that this castle is completely surround with them.” I am so

I want to step closer to the garden, but he pulls my waist back. I cling to his chest to support my balance. My eyes grow wider as our space is getting very limited. I avert my eyes and he come closer to my ears and starts whispering.

“Roses are beautiful princess, but they might get you hurt when you touch them. God knows how much I control myself from kissing you here and devour that sweetest blood of yours. So, before anything bad happens, let us go inside. Shall we?” He then caressing my cheek with his rough hand and staring at me deep into my eyes.

Does the wind is really cold or am I shivering again from his touch? I parted my lips to say to him.

“I’m sorry.” He takes my hand once again and we enter the castle of the devils.

The giant door open and I gasp seeing the luxurious interior design in the castle. There are gold colour mixing with black for the whole room. The furnitures are classic too. There are painting and portrait on the walls. I could not see much when someone finally greet us.

“Sir James. You have arrived. King Damon is expecting you in the ball room. I shall lead the way sir.”

James nod to him. The guard looks dangerous. His bulky body and height are a gift for him to tackle enemies easily. I notice he spare a glance to my presence. He smirks a little and I see his eyes are glow in dark red for a second. I averted my eyes quickly to the floor. I do not want to attract the vampire’s attention, so I just clutch James’s arm tightly.

We were brought to another room in the castle. The guard opens the door and ushering us inside. The classical music is played to enlighten the room. There are many gorgeous women and the men are well dress in the black tux.

James and I sit on the reserved table under his name. The waiter serves us the thick red drink. I feel like I’m going to throw up on him looking at the way he gulps it greedily. I rub my neck awkwardly and look around. I have not seen the king yet. I am sure curious to know what he looks like.

My eyes travel more to the crowd to spot any human who have the same status as I am. I gasp to see there is one girl look exhausted and pale. Her neck is chained too. What an awful act am I seeing here. The girl just sits there like a good baby doll beside his master. My eyes flared with anger seeing his hands travel under her short dress.

“Are you okay?”

James notice my body tensed and I did not answer him. He looks at my direction and figuring it out why I become like that.

“That is why I want you stay by my side princess. I know you are angry and pity the human girl but please just don’t say anything and keep your eyes low if you don’t want to end up like her.” He pleads for me to stay out of the trouble. Maybe I should just play the game and being the nice pet.

The crowd cheers loudly upon the arrival of the king. I stare at him who walks to his throne. My expectation goes wrong. I thought the king will be an old disgusting looking man yet this king standing in front of me is the most handsome devil among their kind.

He has light bags under his eyes, but it didn’t make him look bad, still able to show who holds the power in their world. He begins to say a few words to the guests and the room fall into silent mode abruptly.

“Welcome to all friends and family of Fallen Kingdom. Today, we are celebrating for your red moon hunting recently. I believe you have caught the human you wanted to satisfy our needs.” The guests run around applause before he continued his speech.

“I hope you enjoy yourselves in this ball night here in my castle.” The crowd claps their hands for the king’s speech, and he sits on the throne back.

The same guard who leads us just now, is coming to our way and talks to James.

“King Damon requests for your presence now.” James nod to him and begin to stand up from the seat. I look up to him to ask where he is going. My heart begs for him to not leaving me with these vampires around me. I could not protect myself from them.

“You stay here for a while princess. I have to meet the king for now. Please, stay out of trouble.” He takes out a silver bracelet with his name carved on it and put it on my wrist. My face puzzled by his sudden action.

“Why do I have to wear this bracelet that has your name on it?” I blurt out the question as I become anxious.

“This bracelet shows you are mine. The other vampires would not dare to touch or hurt you as long as they know who your master is. I’ll be quick princess.” He leaves a kiss on my forehead before walking away to meet the king.

I touch the bracelet and stare at his name that is carved beautifully on it. Well if this is his style to brand me as his pet, I like it… at least this is more civilized compared to the old dangerous looks vampire that chain his human pet in her neck.

The song already changed the mood and so does the light, it is set dimmer for a romantic moment. The vampires couple dance gracefully on the dance floor. I envy them. I wish I could sway this sparkle dress under the lights. My smiles faded seeing the dangerous vampire grins when we make contact. I shiver under his gaze look away quickly.

The devil is coming to my direction when I notice his movement is getting closer. He takes a seat beside me and my hands are cold and shaking with his presence. He smirks knowing that I fear for him.

“Who your master, pretty human. I am afraid you have made me took an interest to you.” His hands are on my thigh and I didn’t feel comfortable. I am looking for James desperately to save me from this nasty man.

He squeezes hard my thigh when I didn’t respond to him. I swallow the fear and slap his hand away from my thigh and shout at him.

“Don’t touch me! I belong to Sir James, so leave me alone old man.” I spat it directly on his face.

He is shocked with me, a human that dare to raise a voice to a vampire. His eyes darken and flares with anger within himself. I regret my action and begin to walk away from him.

He is faster to react than me preventing my action to escape. He pulls me back vigorously and I stumble, falling on his lap. He grips my hair and I yelp in pain. The guests did not notice of what this old man doing with me.

“Don’t you dare to act so high with me just because you’re is James’s pet. I think he forgets to teach you manners. Well if he so forgetful, then I will teach you to never disrespect us.” My body is shaking hearing his threat. I try to scream but this lips only stutter of fear.

The vampire starts to breathe in my neck and teasing it.

“You smell so good, what a good catch he made” He hums.

I try to push him away as hard as I can when he grazes his teeth on my skin. I panic and squirming in his hold like a crazy because I know what he will do to next to me.

“James!” I shout for his name hoping for him to rescue me from this monster. But it is too late, when the devil already sinks his fangs into my neck. The sharp pain is unbearable, and the other vampires are now looking at our way, but he didn’t care. He keeps consuming my blood. I close my eyes as this is how my life ends.